Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease

Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

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ISBN/EAN: 9783540427629
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xxxii, 417 S., 20 farbige Illustr.
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Beschreibung

Inhaltsangabe1 Medically Intractable Epilepsy.- 2 Insights into Seizure Propagation from Axonal Conduction Times.- 3 Dynamic Epileptic Systems Versus Static Epileptic Foci?.- 4 Neuroglia, the Other Brain Cells.- 5 The Electroencephalogram (EEG): A Measure of Neural Synchrony.- 6 Electrocorticographic Coherence Patterns of Epileptic Seizures.- 7 Synchronization of Synaptically-Coupled Neural Oscillators.- 8 Controling Neural Synchrony with Periodic and Aperiodic Stimuli.- 9 Modeling Pattern Formation in Excitable Media: The Legacy of Norbert Wiener.- 10 Are Cardiac Waves Relevant to Epileptic Wave Propagation?.- 11 Pattern Formation in the Microbial World: Dictyostelium Discoideum.- 12 Predicting Epileptic Seizures.- 13 Comparison of Methods for Seizure Detection.- 14 Direct Deep Brain Stimulation: First Steps Towards the Feedback Control of Seizures.- 15 Seizure Control Using Feedback and Electric Fields.- 16 Aborting Seizures with a Single Stimulus: The Case for Multistability.- 17 Unstable Periodic Orbits (UPOs) and Chaos Control in Neural Systems.- 18 Prospects for Building a Therapeutic Cortical Stimulator.- 19 Brain Defibrillators: Synopsis, Problems and Future Directions.- Color Plates.- References.

Inhalt

1. Medically Intractable Epilepsy.- 2. Insights into Seizure Propagation from Axonal Conduction Times.- 3. Dynamic Epileptic Systems versus Static Epileptic Foci?- 4. Neuroglia, the Other Brain Cells.- 5. The Electroencephalogram (EEG).- 6. Electrocorticographic Coherence Patterns of Epileptic Seizures.- 7. Synchronization of Synaptically Coupled Neural Oscillators.- 8. Controlling Neural Synchrony.- 9. Modeling Pattern Formation in Excitable Media.- 10. Are Cardiac Waves Relevant to Epileptic Wave Propagation?- 11. Pattern Formation in the Microbial World.- 12. Predicting Epileptic Seizures.- 13. Comparison of Methods for Seizure Detection.- 14. Direct Deep Brain Stimulation.- 15. Seizure Control Using Feedback and Electric Fields.- 16. Aborting Seizures with a Single Stimulus.- 17. Unstable Periodic Orbits (UPOs) and Chaos Control in Neural Systems.- 18. Prospects for Building a Therapeutic Cortical Stimulator.

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